NEWS -- May 2011 Updates
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News & Updates: May 2011

Good news, everyone!


LASKY Changes

We've made a slight adjustment to our LASKY forum -- from now on, any testing character threads as well as Mentorship LASKY threads should take place in the Mentors and Testing subforum of LASKY. You can absolutely continue to test your characters out within LASKY; however, for purposes of simplicity, we wanted to split the usual LASKY posts from any testing posts and especially Mentorship posts.


RP Guide Updates

We have revamped the entire Writing section of the RP Guide, excepting the Grammar page. That is, the the General page and the Improvement page have been revamped, and we've added a special section, the Roleplay page, which details how to write for roleplaying, as it's different from other sorts of creative writing, of course!


IC Forum Reorganization

We have revamped the way the In Character claimed forums (i.e., the pack forums!) are organized. Our forum index was becoming quite long, so we've split the packs up by southern and northern packs. Of course, as always, members from the different "divisions" of packs can freely roleplay with one another. Smile The change is merely to make our index page a little shorter and easier to navigate. Pack forums can be accessed by clicking the colored links in the forum descriptions!


Title Changes?

In the past, the 'SA has been lenient regarding changes to custom titles. However, more recently, due to the pack games, WoTD, contests, and various other means of earning titles, many members now have upwards of two and three titles per character -- this adds up to hundreds of titles for us to need to potentially keep up with and update!


In general, changing titles is a bit of a hassle -- more so when people don't provide the exact code they want for their title, but it's not fair to you guys if we only allow title changes when you post perfect code for us to use --then only code-proficient members would be allowed to request changes.


We are going to disallow changes to all titles after June 30, 2011. For the next month, please request any final changes or adjustments you might want for existing titles. After this date, the only change-related requests we will honor in regard to titles is to remove them completely.


We are also officially disallowing Google Fonts to be used in titles -- you can still use them in signatures, tables, and so forth, but for titles specifically, we'd like to restrict these out of titles out of concern for load times and over-saturating titles with non-standard effects. If your title is currently using a Google Font, please request an appropriate change. After June, no further changes will be allowed for all titles, old or new, and all titles still utilizing Google Fonts will be converted to a standard font.


As an endnote, one of the most frequent reasons for requesting title changes/updates was to fix color fades that ended up not looking as the player intended when they requested "this color to this color." The need for such changes can be avoided in the future by using simple tools to choose specific colors and testing them in the testing thread -- no code knowledge is required!


Please post your Title Changes to the proper topic and not the Maintenance thread or elsewhere. Thank you!


The 'Souls Wiki

The History section of the 'Souls Wiki is looking sadly sparse -- do you have any interesting plots for your character? Late 2010 and nearly all of 2011 could use some interesting updates! Smile


If you're not sure where to begin with the 'Souls Wiki, check out the 'Souls Wiki informational topic to get started. Any questions or issues you encounter can be posted to the Questions and Help forum. Remember, you needn't be proficient in HTML code or any other coding language to make edits!


Spotlight & Community Souls

Congratulations to Rose, winner of Spotlight Soul for May 2011 as Io Berlin and Marit, player of Dawali Amara, winner of Community Soul for May 2011! For more information, check out the Community/Spotlight Soul thread!


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